Tornado Thumbs

Felix walked into the house and flopped onto the couch. Some of the guys

on his baseball team had told him that Jeremy, their classmate, was saying mean and untrue things about him. "If I were you, I'd tell him off!" one of Felix's

friends had urged.

"Yeah," said another. "It's the only way you'll get him to stop saying stuff like

that."

Felix figured they were right. He pulled out his phone and quickly typed a

message to Jeremy. When he was finished, he read over the angry words and not-so-nice names he had written. This will make Jeremy think twice about spreading lies about me, he thought. As he was about to hit "Send," he suddenly remembered Jeremy telling him a few weeks before that he'd be interested in going to Vacation Bible School at Felix's church later that summer. Felix hesitated, his thumb hovering over the screen.

"Wow, look at that!" Mom pointed to a news report on TV. Felix looked up and listened as the reporter told about a tornado that had hit a town in another